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Sohan SubhashI'm trying to track down the source of this Macintosh concept image. Does anyone recognize it?I'm not sure if it's from Frog Design. It's not included in any of the widely shared Macintosh concepts. It's also not featured in Hartmut Esslinger's book Design Forward.Would appreciate any boosts or leads. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintageComputing</a>

AlanGrassiaYesterday’s <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> Classic rescue went well. Today I had a chance to look inside. Definitely suffering from cap leakage.I’m a novice at this, but I *think* it can be repaired. I’m going to give it a try!<a href="https://noc.social/tags/GetTheBatteryOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GetTheBatteryOut</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a>

dan 💾Hey <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> nerds... How do you change the default program that documents open with? I'm drawing a complete blank.I have two versions of HyperCard on this computer but double-clicking any stacks keeps opening the older one by default.

AlanGrassiaIt took longer than I would have liked it to, but I finally located my Torx T15 screwdriver to open my <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> Classic.

obrhoffIt might be a shitty computer but its peak Apple Design 🤩. Man I wish the Mac Studio would be like this. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macintosh</a>

obrhoffNew Vintage Mac joins the collection 🎉.I just picked it up here in Berlin-Kreuzberg from a agency that just went bankrupt. Good deal for 200€. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macpro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macpro</a>

David NelsonWell, the optical drive on this iMac G4 may be Toast—pun intended. Fortunately I have a couple externals sitting around which I can use until I have a chance to replace it. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

David NelsonSo I have this iMac G4 (PowerMac4,2) and I need to decide what OS versions to put on it. Obviously I’ll do OS 9 for classic things, and 10.4.11 since that’s the latest it can run. But what about any in-between versions? Thinking about lesser known considerations like “you need version Y to read this particular filesystem” or “version Z is the last to support this AppleTalk feature”. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

obrhoffMan, these videos are really scary. I got 1 Macintosh Plus and 2 Macintosh SEs in working condition, and I definitely don't have the skill to fix them if they ever break, which seems to happen sooner or later.In fact, when I got my Macintosh SE's the HDDs were still working, but both died now. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macintosh</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLFa6II7Hg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLFa6II7Hg</a>

Blake PattersonThinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac [The Resistor Network]<a href="http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2025/03/thinking-different-thinking-slowly-llms.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2025/03/thinking-different-thinking-slowly-llms.html</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mac</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintageMac</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PowerBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerBook</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PowerPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PowerPC</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PPC</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AltiVec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AltiVec</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/G4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#G4</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/G5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#G5</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#machinelearning</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coding</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

nullericAnother day, another Macintosh Classic dev story - <a href="https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/bbenchoff/MacSSL</a> Mbed-TLS for Classic Macintosh 7, 8, & 9<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

David NelsonTonight I picked up an iMac G4 for $60! I always admired this design but never owned one.This unit is the original 700MHz model with Combo drive. It powers on and everything seems to work.The seller said it was in an abandoned storage unit that he purchased.There’s next to no data on it but judging by Safari bookmarks the original owner was a fly fishing fan.There’s a small iTunes library which I’ll back up before wiping it.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMacintosh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

BigBadBiologistI just picked up a Mac SE/30 for $100. Let's pop it open and see what horrors await inside. I'll also do a little recap (get it?) of the fun of VCF East including my table collapse! Thursday (10th) at 4:00PM eastern (I won't have a Saturday stream this week). <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://youtube.com/live/L8UoYkGAqEc?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/live/L8UoYkGAqEc?feature=share</a>

AlanGrassiaFinal photos from <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VCFEast2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VCFEast2025</a> such a great group of nerds and all around nice people!<a href="https://bitbang.social/@BigBadBiologist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BigBadBiologist</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mac84tv</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/@polpo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@polpo</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

Blake PattersonAnyone know what the CRT refresh rate on the original Mac / Fat Mac / Mac Plus is? 60Hz?<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mac</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintageapple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintageapple</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CRT</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MacPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MacPlus</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Mac128K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mac128K</a>

4am ❧<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Telmo 🦕I’m definitely getting the new Power Mac — in 20 to 30 years, like I’ve been doing with the G3, G4, G5, and every other one since. It’s tradition at this point.<a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macintosh</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MARCHintosh</a>

David NelsonHappy final day of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MARCHintosh</a>! I’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone’s posts this month. Just a reminder that people still talk about these things year round so be sure to use and follow tags like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageApple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageApple</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> 💕

Scott Small 🇨🇦It's time for a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MARCHintosh</a> retrospective!Firstly: I've attached a photo of the remaining gifts to the drop box that have come in since the 15th!Secondly: I've completed a final pass-over of the servers on <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalTalk</a>, left my calling card, and a print job for anyone who hasn't had one yet (as long as they have open file shares/printers). Results of that are attached as well.Finally, the retrospective itself:It's been an absolutely CRAZY month: - On Day 1, my SE came home from the workshop with a fully-serviced floppy drive and '030 accelerator... - ...which I didn't even end up playing with at all, because on Day 2 I bought a Power Mac 6500 for an absolute steal (and I STILL have to explore the other external HD that came with it) - GlobalTalk completely dominated the month just like it did last year. I rebuilt my QEMU VM for running AIR a couple nights before the start of the month and it's been absolutely rock solid stable ever since. - I made great progress on my project for the month, archiving my collection of Mac floppies from the early 90's. I'm only about 40% done, so this will continue into April as "bonus content" 😁 - No updates on <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Macstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Macstodon</a> - but I did verify that it works perfectly fine on Mastodon 4.3 if you manually authenticate by copying the URL to a modern machine, and copying the auth token back to your Mac.Lastly I want to give thanks to everyone in the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VintageMac</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> community for making this such a fun event every year! I love seeing all the greetings showing up in my drop box, and to my printer (which is now off for the year - but the PDF printer is available year round!) But I especially want to thank the following folks: - <a href="https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kalleboo</a> for TalkCrawler and for putting together an amazing GlobalTalk scavenger hunt! - <a href="https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@europlus</a> for his hard work on the AIR Administrator's Manual Addendum and VM images for QEMU! - <a href="https://mastodon.social/@scj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@scj</a> for the GlobalTalk updater app! - <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@theirongiant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@theirongiant</a> for 68K Radio, which has been my background music while working on my vintage Macs this month! - <a href="https://bitbang.social/@polpo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@polpo</a> for creating the ImageScribbler card which made it possible to send print jobs to so many more people this year! - <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dmark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dmark</a> for maintaining netatalk, making it possible to share files over AppleTalk directly from my NAS instead of having to keep an old Mac running all the time! - <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@DrJosh9000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DrJosh9000</a> for jrouter, which I'm looking forward to trying again now that the month is over and I can start messing around with my setup - it's had a lot of bugfixes and updates! - <a href="https://mastodon.social/@_the_cloud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@_the_cloud</a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/@jimluther" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jimluther</a> , for sharing great knowledge from their time at Apple with the community (and for helping me troubleshoot some crashes)! - <a href="https://bitbang.social/@RonsCompVids" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RonsCompVids</a> , <a href="https://oldbytes.space/@MuseumJoe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MuseumJoe</a> , and <a href="https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mac84tv</a> for putting together the annual MARCHintosh event!Until next year!

4am ❧The Bitstream Typeface Library v2.0.moof<a href="https://archive.org/details/moofaday_The_Bitstream_Typeface_Library_v2_1991" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/moofaday_The_Bitstream_Typeface_Library_v2_1991</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagemac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moofaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moofaday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MARCHintosh</a>

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